Overview

What is Textract?

A Screen Text Capture OCR Library, for QA and inter-task communication.

In depth

A closer look at Textract

It allows to copy text from Windows 98/95/NT screen, under control of another program. Contains DLL, console mode EXE and use examples. Software QA departments can use Textract to capture text from testing application and compare this text with intended screen content. Textract is also well suited for corporate environment as an application connectivity tool, to feed some application with text from another text "source"application. Textract is especially useful if this source application is a third-party, or cannot be changed, or hard and time-wasting to change, and has no adequate embedded support for communication. Based on the Direct Klepting technology, specific Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology for recognition of rasterised text from computer screen. Thus, Textract can capture the text from any part of any application, even from clipboard and OLE-unaware applications, for example from folder trees, filelists, database reports, text content of messages and dialog boxes, menus, status lines, legacy

Verdict

Should you download Textract?

Textract runs on Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP/2003 and is available under the Demo license — the installer is 1.16 MB. We’ve catalogued it under C , C++ , C#.

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Textract specifications

Category: C , C++ , C#
Publisher: Pavel Senatorov
Last updated: Mar 9, 2025
License: Demo
Operating system: Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP/2003
File size: 1.16 MB
Price: Free
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